President John Beal lead the pledge and Kris Engstrom gave the devotional.
Special Guest
Elaine Dates with Clinton Reichard
Special Guest Clint Reichard, a former District Governor with a long and colorful history in Rotary, beginning with membership in Rotary in Pennsylvania in 1961, moving to Vermont to pursue his veterinary medical career, and founding the Colchester Rotary Club in 1973. He has been active on many district committees and came to our meeting to introduce the major changes that are happening in the Rotary Foundation.
He explained that the foundation, founded in 1917 to do global projects, had grown to manage billions of dollars, had as many as 28 programs and had become burdensome and confusing. In an effort to make the work of the Foundation viable for another 100 years, the process has been simplified; it will focus on projects relevant to Rotary, will meet global and local needs, and will encourage ownership by districts and clubs by transferring responsibility to the districts. It is hoped that the changes will enhance public awareness of the Rotary Foundation’s work.
SAA
Happy fines:
Sergeant at Arms Don Condon managed a quick session of happy fines, to ensure time for the guest speaker.
Steve Dates – thanks to Virginia and New Jersey (could this be a political plug?)
Fritz Horton – son Andy being married this weekend
Dave Rice – side bets paid off at the Car Raffle Friday evening
Jim Spadaccini – happy to be a member of such a good group – and thanks to everyone for pitching in on Friday evening
Ric Flood – announcing that following their annual “marriage” to help with the Car Raffle, he and Bob Maynes are now “divorced.”
Elaine Dates – welcome to Clint
Terrell Titus – glad to see Clinton – heading for South Carolina for a week
Jim Spadaccini – Clinton is one of the greatest guys he knows
Alan Hathaway – for the car raffle and the great meal by Will
Sue McLellan – her nephew’s success on the Missisquoi Valley School team
George Ewins – got out of a speeding ticket by heaping accolades (so to speak) on the police officer
Kris Engstrom – Erica has a job – Max was a shark for his first Halloween
Michele Lash – won two prizes on Friday evening
Dave Jonah – for the success of the CVU JV football team’s excellent 8-0 season (his son Will is a member of the team) – and the prediction that the Yankees will wrap it up Wednesday night
Trafton Crandall – missed the car raffle – and has a second grandchild in New York
Sharon Beal – the car raffle was wonderful – Ric did an amazing job as MC
Michael Clapp – the world class pediatric team at FAHC who saved his grandson
Adam Bartsch – coming to today’s meeting and discovering that he won $1,500
Roz Graham – had the best volunteer job at the Car Raffle – driving the car to the party – nice little blue Honda Fit
John Hammer – his grandson has been visiting – and thanks to Andrea Rodgers, the guest speaker
John Beal – for winning a prize at the car raffle – and for his birthday
Ric Flood – his daughter’s birthday
Lucky draw: Andrea Rodgers drew Linda Barker’s number but Linda chose the wrong card and didn’t win the $20 pot!
Guest Speaker Andrea Rodgers
Andrea Rodgers and John Beal
Andrea has been director of the Flynn Theatre since helped to found it in 1983 and is now the Executive Director and CEO of the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts. She has announced that she will retire in June of 2010.
While pursuing their mission of fostering the understanding and development of the performing arts, the Flynn has several goals:
saving and maintaining their historic facility – including upgrading its technology steadily – providing a home for many local cultural presenters from Lyric Theater and the Vermont Mozart Festival to Vermont Youth Orchestra and Lane Series.
presenting their own performances on the main state (60%) and Flynn Space (40%) with a focus on jazz and dance, world music, family programs and Broadway shows
education programs to bring the performing arts to young people with student matinee programs, study guides for teachers and workshops to enhance the experience
community arts programs such as camps, workshops, master classes
supporting artists in the development of new works
They have an annual budget of $6 million and enjoy wonderful community support.
Acknowledgments to Volunteers for 2009 C-S Rotary Car Raffle
Bill Wisell, John Beal, Tina Flood (representing ticket holders Adam Bartsch and Antoine Williams) and Jack DuBrul
Bob Maynes for serving as greeter
Ric Flood and the folks from Flood Financial Management (Pat, Cindy and Rhonda) for his work on Ticket Sales, which includes solicitation for Pumpkin Tickets, Event Management, and flawless work as our MC
Colleen Haag and her assistants Linda Gilbert and Linda Barker for managing the door prize solicitation and management as well as Russ Blodgett, John Beal, Kris Engstrom, Ric Flood, Sam Feitelberg, Bill Deming, Bob Maynes, Chuck Laclair, Roz Graham, Linda and George Schiavone, Michael Lash, Joan Lenes, Terrill Titus, Fritz Horton, Deb Hanley, Linda Gilbert, John Dupee, Sue Mclellan, Mal Parker, Katie Camardo and Colleen for legging it out there to solicit the businesses who donated prizes.
Chuck LaClair with Ron Van Mynen, Denny Bowen, Terry and Julie Kennaugh for set-up
Terrell Titus, Bill Deming and John Hammer for table bussing & dishes.
Kris Engstrom and her assistants Julie Kennaugh, Barbara Bowen, Linda Gilbert and John Hammer for our decorations
Jim Spad for preparing and delivering the Board and Balls, table ID cards
Linda Barker with assistance from Linda Gilbert and John Dupee for working on registration and raffle ticket sales
Katie Camardo and Paul Bohne, our behind-the-scenes stage hands keeping Ric on track
Judy Christensen for coffee and several last-minute snags she resolved
Andrea and her staff at Shelburne Farms
William and his staff at Cucina Antica for a great buffet
And last but not least, several members for their contributions to the wide selection of desserts we enjoyed.
From Fritz Horton, Raffle Organizing Czar – thank you to you for all your good work, Fritz
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